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House GOP Proposes So-Called “Let Women Die” Bill That Lets Hospitals Deny Life-Saving Care
In their latest assault on women’s health, this week House Republicans will take up HR 358, the ironically titled “Protect Life Act.” Opponents have rechristened the measure the “Let …
The Seven Biggest Economic Lies
The President’s Jobs Bill doesn’t have a chance in Congress — and the Occupiers on Wall Street and elsewhere can’t become a national movement for a more equitable society …
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Tunisia: Social Media Lift the Silence
Tunis - After 23 years of enforced silence, media professionals and artists in Tunisia are enjoying a period in which their freedom of expression is being respected for the …
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Community Groups, Labor and ‘Occupy Chicago’ Protest Mortgage Bankers Association, Seven Thousand Strong
Protesters gather for the Occupy Chicago General Assembly. Click to view larger. (Photo: Mario Garcia-Baeza) When the Mortgage Bankers Association decided to hold their annual conference in …
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Why No Demands? Occupy Wall Street Is a Rebellion, Not a Protest
Let’s get something straight: this movement has issued no demands. It is not a protest. It’s an occupation. Rebellions don’t have demands. As we wrote in the …
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Financial Giants Put New York City Cops on Their Payroll
Videos are springing up across the internet showing uniformed members of the New York Police Department in white shirts (as opposed to the typical NYPD blue uniforms) pepper spraying …
Occupy Wall Street Organizer: Protest Expands Despite Police Effort to “Silence” Demonstrators
Now in its fourth week, the Occupy Wall Street encampment has attracted thousands of demonstrators who continue to tackle the challenges of self-organizing and building a movement. As their …
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Coal Ash Regulation Would Create 28,000 Jobs
Does environmental protection destroy jobs? That may be the strongest argument that the pro-pollution lobby has going for it. No one wants to endorse dirty air and water in …
New Free Trade Agreements Threaten to Kill Jobs and Labor Rights
Displaced Colombian farmers on the road looking for work in the sugar cane fields of Cauca. A free trade agreement will increase the number of farmers displaced by grain …
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A Delicate Moment for the Occupy Wall Street Movement
A group of children from Central Park East One and Two schools join demonstrators at the Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park, New York, October 10, 2011. (Photo: …